As we walk the path of samsara, we often carry various hopes and dreams. Do we also put in the effort that we have at the moment of dreaming to make those dreams come true? No, right? We dream and try to create our life as a bed of roses. We also remember the problematic environment that arises in creating that beautiful life if it is not a bed of roses. Remembering that, we make a lot of effort to ask what is the right way to solve the problems that come our way. But we should try to create that effort in a way that does not strain the mind and wisdom. Otherwise, the power of correct thinking possessed by the natural mind will gradually fade away and we will be created as a person who cannot do any work with proper mindfulness. Then we will not be able to properly fulfill any goal that is aroused in our mind. So who created that situation? Isn't it ourselves? Is there any purpose that arises in our mind? We should work hard to achieve that goal.
We should try hard to make all the hopes and desires in our hearts come true. We should ask ourselves how. When we feel hungry, we know what to do. Then we slowly walk to the place where food is prepared in the house or to the dining table. If there is no food as we want or there is nothing to satisfy our hunger, we struggle to find food to satisfy that hunger in any way, because that hunger brings great hardship and great suffering to the body, and because of that hunger, we also create the factors that lead to our death. The Buddha has also taught this well. That is,
What is the name of it? Sabbe satta ahaatthithika
What is the name of it? All animals need food
All animals that have lived in the world will live on food. They cannot live without food at any time. We will also have many other needs. We have seen that every person makes many efforts to fulfill those needs well, and we have seen cases where all those efforts have been completed, and we have also seen those who live in misery because those efforts were incomplete. That is well taught by the Buddha.
If you do not get something, you will suffer
If you do not get it as you wish, it is suffering
Do all people living in society live their lives based on happiness? Do they also live their lives based on suffering? No. Why have all of them not been able to live their lives based on happiness? At some point, when a poor person or a beggar asks us for something, do we think carefully about it and try to help them or turn our backs on them? No. We all do all those things while sitting in ignorance at some point and creating a good point in our mind. We should ask how.
Did this person come to us to touch us considering our poverty? Is he coming to us because he cannot earn anything by doing hired work? He is asking me for money. Various thoughts like these will arise in our minds at such times. But at that moment, we should ask ourselves in our minds why this person has touched us. He, like us, must have dreamed of living a beautiful life in his early years. But due to some evil, those dreams may have been blurred. If we ask ourselves in our minds about these and other things, it will clearly show us that we too have the opportunity to have such a situation.
We all want to live in a world full of happiness and strive for it in various ways from the moment we are born. But all those fulfilled and created dreams fade away due to some weakness we have. Therefore, we should ask ourselves what we should follow.
We strive to reach a certain goal from a young age. What is that wish or dream? Let us imagine that in our childhood, we strive to become a teacher who provides good and successful education. But due to some financial difficulties in our family or because our interest has waned or for some other reason, that dream may have faded and we may become a shopkeeper with good money. Then we will have children. We will have a good wife. What should you do then? Shouldn't you make your children realize the dream that you could not see? If you were not able to become a successful teacher in your life because of financial difficulties, then you or your children do not have such difficulties now. Therefore, you should work hard to guide your children on the right path and put them in a position that you could not reach. You can be happy thinking that my child has reached a place that I could not reach today.
Similarly, a Japanese man named Honda had dreamed of seeing a vehicle bearing his name running throughout Japan since he was a child. But he was a very poor person. But was he born with a thought that suited the extent of poverty? No. He thought of such a thought, tried hard to make that thought come true, and enjoyed watching motorcycles and cars bearing his name running all over the world. Wasn't that due to his unwavering determination? Initially, no one was willing to help him do that. But he was not swayed by any of that, thinking that he would do this well, and with that thought, he accomplished the great task of making his dream come
We all should make the dreams we see come true every moment. Even if we have thoughts that we can't do, we should not express it. Also, considering that thought is just a word, we should strive to make every dream we see in our life come true, just like a bee that collects pollen from flowers and makes delicious honey.
There is a lot of room for life to be lived in a harsh way in the early days. This explains to us that you should somehow make this harsh life beautiful. Also, that life should be created as a beautiful life. What kind of world are some of the children who struggled in their childhood in today? What kind of sad places are those who lived in the world in today? What are the basic reasons that led to this? We all need to examine this carefully and learn from it and sharpen our lives.
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